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An immersive journey into the author’s lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start againOf Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer ...

Children's picture book.Bilingual English-Italian.A friendship fantasy story about two lovable spiders.Worried Molly goes in search of mysterious Magnus to ask for his help to solve her small misdemeanour.After Magnus agrees to help they go on a fun, but scary journey through the Wizards house and its plumbing pipes to sort out the problem that they need to fix before the Wizard gets back home."Ooh, what'...

The concept of gravity, as defined by Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century, explains the force that attracts two bodies towards each other. This fundamental force is responsible for keeping planets in orbit around the sun, holding us firmly on the ground, and governing the motion of objects in our everyday lives. Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every mass attracts every other mass, with a strength that increases with mass and decreases with the square of the distance betw...

Embark on an exciting journey through Denmark's most enchanting celebrations and hidden wonders in this collection of fun-filled, bilingual Danish-English stories! From mystical beaches to secret elf adventures, each tale will captivate young readers while helping them learn Danish in a delightful and engaging way.Join Karla as she uncovers a magical beach, follow Jonas through the enchanted rides at Tivoli, and laugh along with Nikolaj and his invisible Christmas elf. With every p...

A thorough and absorbing summary of the healing and therapeutic uses of the floatation tank invented by Dr. John C. Lilly, the celebrated neuroscience researcher. This edition includes a new foreword by Lee Perry, additional illustrations, and updated information.

In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race: "On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke" ( Chicago Tribune).Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On th...

The hired gunmen came to Mahon's place to take him away and kill him. But instead of Mahon they found a black-dressed Texas boy with a fast gun, and left him for dead, taking his horse. They had made their first big mistake. In the town of Escopeta they met two more Texans, one a handsome blond giant, the other a small insignificant-looking individual, the sort of man one would pass in the street without a second glance. The hired gunmen passed him without a second glance and in so doing m...

The cities of the eastern States were hungry for beef. The problem was how to get it to them. Colonel Charles Goodnight had a plan that might work—if he had all the luck he needed. Things seemed to be going well, especially with the Floating Outfit on his side—Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Dusty Fog, the small Texan who walked tall. But what Goodnight didn't need was an enemy like John Chisum ...

An immersive journey into the author's lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start againOf Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer ...

A gripping historical adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers.It is the summer of 1904 and Tsar Nicholas II is sending his Baltic fleet – a ragtag bunch of old crooks, untrained, potentially mutinous crews and hopelessly inefficient officers – halfway around the world to reinforce his few remaining ships in the Far East. Here the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo has been scoring success after success against the Russians....

THE FINAL FLOATING OUTFIT BOOK. Belle Starr, lady outlaw, had been murdered, cut down from behind by a double charge of buckshot. Nobody knew who had killed her.But Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid swore they would bring in the murderer.Getting whoever killed Belle meant a lot to the three Texans.It meant more than ever to Mark, for he had planned to ask the girl to be his wife.

Can the Ysabel Kid keep his bet with the others of the Floating Outfit and keep out of trouble?When the young newcomer to the town of Wet Slim discovered that Mavis Dearington had been kidnapped, he knew it was imperative that the ransom be paid. For Ramon Peraro, the bandido's leader, would then honor the girl's safe return—unharmed. But no money would mean an unpleasant death...Learning that Mavis' uncle was gathering a force of men to cross the border into Mexico to try an...